Catch has Fire is the first album recorded by the Wailers ( Bob Marley , Peter Tosh , Bunny Livingston , Aston and Carlton Barrett ) for Chris Blackwell. It is the first true album of the group, recorded like such, and not a compilation the individual ones. Recorded with Kingston in October 1972, it was entirely mixed in November with the Island Studios, with London, by John " Rabbit" Bundrick, which added many “overdubs”.
In spite of the absence of promotion and very modest sales at the beginning, fourteen thousand specimens of Wrestling has Fire were sold the first year.
Linton Kwesi Johnson wrote in later: “Wrestling has Fire created with him only a new type of music jamaïcaine. With other characteristics, a different sound… which I can describe only by the international term “reggae”. It integrates elements coming from various international popular musics, the rock'n'roll, the drunk person, the blues, the funk. These elements facilitated acceptance by the international market of it… Instead of stressing the couple low-battery, the mixing of this album is acuter, less heavy. The emphase is rather placed on the auxiliary guitars and other instruments. Never a recording of reggae jamaïcain had so openly adapted the electronic sounds of the modern music. ”
Titles
Face has- Concrete Jungle (Marley)
- Slave Driver (Marley)
- 400 Years (Tosh)
- Stop The Train (Tosh)
- Baby We' ve Got on Date (Rock'n'roll It Baby) (Marley)
Face B
- Stir It Up (Marley)
- Kinky Reggae (Marley)
- No More Disturbs (Marley)
- Midnight Ravers (Marley)
High Tide Gold Low Tide and All Day All Night , the two titles drawn aside at the time of the exit of the album, was added to the edition CD of 2001.
Musicians
- Voice, acoustic guitar - Bob Marley
- Voice, piano, organ, guitar - Peter Tosh
- Voice, congas, bongos - Bunny Wailer
- Low - Aston " Family Man" Barrett
- Battery - Carlton " Carlie" Barrett
Anecdote
The edition vinyl was sold in an articulated small pocket representing a Zippo lighter.
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